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Fredericton, NB

Odell Park DGC

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Experience: 16.8 years 28 played 11 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Great little course for New Brunswick 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jun 2, 2016 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

i Hit this course while driving through New Brunswick. It is 3 minutes from the highway and pretty easy to find. At the 1st hole there is a large welcome sign explaining but no map of the course. I did download the map from the club's website which helped but it was still confusing as there was no signage. After a couple of holes I ran into a local who showed me around the course.

Odell Park is a really beautiful park that is mowed and maintained very well with large pines and gardens throughout. The first hole wss probably my favorite hole as it throws downhill, across a stream, over some nice gardens to a well guarded basket.

There are a good mix of left and right throws although as with most courses it is righty friendly. I really liked the course, with lots of elevation changes on most of the holes. The basket placements were well thought out with guardian trees protecting the pins. Really liked two holes that had narrow downhill shots with trees and rocks surrounding the basket and a steam 10 feet behind.

Cons:

The tee pads and signage are terrible. There is an info sign at the front but no map and no signage at the holes. The tees are grass which are fine when dry, today the grass was wet and the worn out grass was slippery. You could tell they were in the process of replacing old wooden tees and moving them to fresh grass.

Other Thoughts:

Really enjoyed the course and its design/layout. I've driven past the course on my way to Halifax a few times but never stopped. I'll be sure to stop here in the future.
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The Valkyrie Kid
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 46 years 1562 played 1507 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Challenging Nine In A Lovely City Park! 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 23, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

Odell Park is a large, beautiful city park with a wealth of activities going on. The park is immaculately maintained and was abuzz with people enjoying the park's multitudes of activities. The disc golf course, currently New Brunswick's one and only course, has only been in operation for about a year now. The course is currently nine holes, although more holes are coming. The course begins right next to the parking lot when you enter the park at Rookwood and Wagoneers Lane. There is nice big course sign in both French and English laying out the basic rules and strategies of disc golf.

There are two natural tees for each hole. Each are marked by a front board only, white for the longs and red for the short tees. The red paint has faded pretty badly and is somewhat hard to recognize. The longer white tees are sometimes difficult to find as they're not only just longer, but sometimes at a far different angle from where one might expect to find them. The baskets are DGA models with the always hard to read red numbers on top. As of July 2015, there is no signage of any kind.

The area where the course is installed features some nice rolling terrain as well as a couple of technical throws through the woods. For a nine hole course, Odell gives you a pleasant variety of technical, uphill and more open shots. I really liked the starting hole best. It has you throwing a slight downhill shot through a fairly narrow gap and crossing a small creek. There wasn't much water in the creek in July but I think it might be a bigger factor in other parts of the year. The thing I didn't like about this hole was the fact that you were actually playing across some lovely beds of flowers. I'm afraid if they were to get broke down and trampled, someone is not going to be happy with us disc golfers.

Cons:

Gravel, dirt, grass tee pads are not good. They're an eyesore to this lovely park. They're slippery when wet. These are all too small.
No signs as of yet.

My favorite hole (#1) which plays through these lovely flower beds. Mature players like me could play this hole 100's of time without damaging these flowers. I worry about the 13-17 age group. They don't always think about the consequences of their actions, do they?

Other Thoughts:

What a great start for the Fredericton disc golf community! There were lots of players out enjoying the course. It's a nice course in a lovely park. The dual tees make it challenging for more players. When signs are added, additional holes installed and maybe some work done on the tee pads, this could become one of the premier courses in Eastern Canada.
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